Eric K Stern Editor

Eric K. Stern is Professor of Political Science at the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity at the University at Albany (SUNY). Dr. Stern holds a PhD from Stockholm University and a BA from Dartmouth College. He has published extensively in the fields of crisis and emergency management, crisis communication, resilience, security studies, executive leadership, foreign policy analysis, and political psychology. He is also affiliated with the Swedish Defense University, where he served as Director of the National Center for Crisis Management Research and Training (CRISMART) from 2004 to 2011. He is co-editor of Crisis Lawyering (NYU Press, 2021) and co-author of The Politics of Crisis Management: Public Leadership Under Pressure, 2e (Cambridge University Press, 2017), winner of the American Political Science Association's Herbert A. Simon Award. Other key areas of interest and expertise include social media and crisis preparedness, postcrisis evaluation and learning, interactive education and instructional design, and case research/teaching methodologies. In addition to his scholarly work, Professor Stern has collaborated closely with a number of international organizations as well as European, Asian, and US government agencies on a wide range of applied research and educational-including training and exercise development-projects.